Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat 60 years ago today. — -- Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights ...

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

But the meme is misleading. The Transit Authority in Birmingham points out the Parks tribute was wrapped on both sides of the bus, not just the back.

Mug shot No. 7053 is one of the most iconic images of Rosa Parks. But the photo, often seen in museums and textbooks and on T-shirts and websites, isn’t what it seems.

TROY's Rosa Parks Museum will have activities Dec. 1-5 to commemorate Rosa Parks Day and the 65th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. Parks was a lifelong activist.

Parks was fined $14 for violating a state segregation law. On Dec. 9, the Advertiser reported that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for boycotters in a meeting with bus officials.

When bus #2857 was retired in the early 1970s, Roy H. Summerford of Montgomery bought it. At the time, company employees told him that it was the Rosa Parks bus.

A Citilink bus adorned with unique artwork paying tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been on the streets of Fort Wayne for only a few weeks, and it’s already turning heads. The ...